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2008
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"Doesn't it rain in Oregon, like 365 days a year? Someone told me you guys only get 30 days of sun a year." I hear this constantly from people looking to relocate to Salem, Oregon. Concerned about the massive downpour of rain that they think we get here, they don't think they can handle the d...
03/31/2008
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I wrote a post not too long ago about a Craigslist scam that is going around the country. Yesterday, I had the fortune of finding my website content on someone else's website, joy of joys. Today, I read an article about two situations in which people posted an ad on Craigslist to come home and t...
03/30/2008
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Okay, it finally happened...I was plagiarized. Like many members, I have read many blogs on AR about copyright and plagiarism. I am not the most elegant writer (my AP creative writing teacher in high school would be appalled at the regression in my writing skills), but I did spend a lot of tim...
03/29/2008
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I took my 7 year old son today to open his first savings account at the bank. He had managed to save $23.50 so far from his allowance. As I was going through the process with him, explaining how the bank knows to put the money in his account vs. another one, what he was signing, and how to de...
03/28/2008
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Many agents on Active Rain have talked about the recent NAR campaign "It's a good time to buy." For some agents, this is not the case in their area and have expressed ambivalence about this campaign. I recently came across this video, which is a parody of the NAR campaign. Sometimes, we just need...
03/27/2008
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Recently, I received an email from a former client asking if I knew if anyone was hiring in new home construction. A friend had been layed off recently. With new home construction inventories in Salem hovering around 19 months, my suggestion was to look at commercial construction or infrastructu...
03/26/2008
It's always a sign of spring here in the Willamette Valley when the Wooden Shoe holds the annual tulip festival. The festival started on March 20th, and runs through April 20th with over 170 varieties of tulips to see. After 23 years, the tulip festival always reminds me of why our Oregon rain i...
03/24/2008
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A couple of weeks ago, Thomas Scott from Seattle blogged about a Craigslist scam directed at renters.I wanted to make sure consumers are aware that the scam artists appear to be working their way across the country. This same scam was just attempted here in Salem, OR.The scammer hijacks a legiti...
03/23/2008
As I was boiling eggs for my daughter's preschool class yesterday, I thought I would write a quick blog about our local Easter egg hunts and bunny sightings.EGG HUNTS:Morningside United Methodist Church will have it's annual egg hunt in the forest behind the church. Four age groups and 1500 hidd...
03/20/2008
As I was getting my son from school today, I noticed that several kids were riding their scooters without helmets. Now in Oregon, if they are under the age of 14, that is against the law. This reminded me of a Parents Magazine article. Parents Magazine just rated the top 10 safest states for ki...
03/19/2008
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